• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 months ago

    The corporate branding, the new “AI-powered developer platform” slogan, makes it clear that what I think of as “GitHub”—the traditional website, what are to me the core features—simply isn’t Microsoft’s priority at this point in time.

    Microsoft software is all like this: the features users want and would find most useful are never a priority, nor are the bugs that annoy existing users. The priority is whatever some unholy alliance of management and marketing have pulled out of their corporate bottoms as the focus of this month’s promotion. It doesn’t seem even to be about what would drive sales, since customers like things that work. It’s some logic that only makes sense to the businesspeople who speak that absolutely vapid buzzword slurry that gushes from Satya Nadella’s mouth. I don’t get it, but it’s very consistent with Microsoft.

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        2 months ago

        Github is more than just git. We need decentralized solutions for associated services and persistently online repos.

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        2 months ago

        They’re asking for a federated forge, not decentralized VCS.

        I should be able to log into my own instance and use that account to open a bug report with your project, for example.

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        2 months ago

        Yeah… does git have issue tracking? actions? C’mon: it’s not like github & co. are just git.

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    2 months ago

    Give a hacker a github, they’ll commit for a week.

    Give a hacker a mailing list and an ssh, and they’ll be selfhosting for the rest of their life.

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      2 months ago

      Right, because mailing lists are easier to use

      Hiring the barrier of entry is one way to reduce your ticket load. And, uh, not having any ticket system at all.